Machine for securing window-shades to rollers



(No Model.)

J. N. WIGGIN. MACHINE FOR SBGURING WINDOW SHADES lTo ROLLBRS.

No. 416,881. Patented Dec. 10. .1889.

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UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

JOSEPH N. wioeIN, `OE ORANGE, NEW JERSEY.

MACHINE FOR SECURING WINDOW-SHADES TO ROLLERS.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No'. 416,881, datedDecember 10, 1889.

' Applicationled March 1l i889. Serial No. 302,839. (No model.)

To all whom t may concern.-

Be it known that I, JOSEPH N. WIGGIN, of Orange, in the county of Essexand State of New Jersey, have invented an Improvement in Machines forSecuring Vindow-Shades to Rollers, and the following is declared to be adescription of the same.

My invention relates to a machine adapted to secure window-shade fabricto spring-roll-V ers 5 and the same consists in the combination, with astaple or tack driving machine and a frame for suitably mounting thesaine, of a traveling carrier adapted to receive the roll of shadefabric, and a sliding rest connected to the traveling carriage andmoving therewith, and upon which rest the spring shaderollers arereceived and the edge of the shade fabric secured thereto by staples ortacks.

In the drawings, Figure 1 is a cross-section of my improved device andan elevation of the staple-machine, and Fig. 2 is a front elevation ofthe same in smaller size.

A A represent the frames of the machine, and B represents thestaple-machine. This staple-machine may be of any well-knowncharacter-such as isfound in the marketor in place thereof atack-driving machine might be employed. Y

The machine represented in the drawings is made with double levers o.a', a link b connecting the adjacent ends of said levers. The hammer cis connected to the lever a, and the foot-lever rodv d is connected tothe lever a', and this foot-lever rod is operated by an attendant from atreadle or lever on the floor, and e represents the row of staples upona bar, forming part of this machine, which staples are fed forward inthe usual manner.

' C represents the traveling carrier, which is preferably trough-shaped,as shown in crosssection, Fig. l, and the same is provided with rollerson the under side, resting upon tracks F, connected to the frame A.There are braeket-armsg, one at each end of the traveling carrier C, andsaid arms are curved-as shown, and have flattened ends to which thesliding rest h, is secured, and e' represents a shade-roller, with apiece of the shade 'fabric around the same, resting in the notched orcurved face of the sliding rest 7L. There is a plate k secured to theedge of the frame A, and the sliding rest h bears' against one side ofthis edge plate; and passing through the frame A directly beneath thehammer c is an adjusting-screw and its socket Z, the object of which isto support the rest h and shaderoller against the blow in driving thestaple and raise or lower the sliding rest h so as to bring the rollert' into its proper relation with the hammer c, so that the staples ortacks employed to secure the shade fabric tothe roller may be properlydriven through the vfabric into the roller.

The operation of the device is as follows: An attendant, standing infront of the machine, moves the traveling carrier C and rest h to itsextreme position at his right hand, and he places within the carrier C aroll of shade fabric eut to length, while alongside of him upon thetable or frame A is a number of shade-rollers. He n'ow takes one pieceof shade fabric and, raising the same and partially unwinding it, placesit around the shade-roller and lays the shade-roller upon the rest h,against the grooved face thereof. He now brings the roller i to thedesired point beneath the hammer-c, and operates the staple-machine byhis foot and the device heretofore named, and drives into the roller onestaple at a time, shifting with one hand the carrier C and the rest` h,and moving the shade-roller and fabric step by step as each staple isdriven through such fabric into the roller. As such roller is fastenedto a piece of shade fabric the carrier C is drawn back to thestarting-point and the operations described repeated.

I claim as my invention-- l. The combination, with a staple-drivingmachine and supporting-frames, of a travel- Ving carrier forthe'win'dow-shade fabric, and

arms g,and the sliding rest h, said rest h havedge plate la in front ofthe sliding rest, and 1o ing a. grooved 011 euived face for receivingthe adjusting-screw and socket Z beneath the the shade-roll,substantially as set forth. slide-rest, substantially as ser.- forth.

3. The eombinatiolnwith :L staple-machine Signed by me Ythis 6th day ofMarch, A. D. and the frames A A,'0f the traveling carrier 1889.

C, for the Window-shade material, and the roll- JOSEPH N. VIGGIN. ersand tracks for the same, the braeketarms Vitnesses:

g and the sliding rest h, said rest 7L having a GEO. T. PINCKNEY,

grooved or curved face for Jche shade-roll, the HAROLD SERRELL.

